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I am a LiveDVD user for all of my PUPs. I run persistence via save-sessions to my LiveDVD via the builtin subsystem for such. Is that ability present in this distro?_________________Get ACTIVE Create Circles; Do those good things which benefit people's needs!
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3 Different Puppy Search Engineor use DogPileLast edited by gcmartin on Wed 16 Apr 2014, 17:39; edited 1 time in total

If you are running as a non-root user then use sudo with the following apt commands:

The ‘update‘ command is used to resynchronize the package index files from the their sources specified in /etc/apt/sources.list file:

Code:

apt-get update

The ‘upgrade‘ command is used to upgrade all the currently installed software packages on the system:

Code:

apt-get upgrade

Use 'install' to install a package whose name you know:

Code:

apt-get install iceweasel

If you don't know the exact name, you can use “search” with apt-cache to display a list of matched packages with short description:

Code:

apt-cache search flashplugin

or use:

apt-cache search flashplugin | less (q key to quit 'less')

You can download any given package without installing it:

Code:

apt-get download iceweasel

To un-install software packages without removing their configuration files (for later re-use the same configuration). Use the ‘remove‘ command:

Code:

apt-get remove iceweasel

To remove software packages including their configuration files, use the ‘purge‘ command:

Code:

apt-get purge iceweasel

To list all the available packages

Code:

apt-cache pkgnames

or use:

apt-cache pkgnames | less

if you would like to check information of package along with it short description, use show:

Code:

apt-cache show flashplugin-nonfree

if you would like to check package dependencies, use showpkg:

Code:

apt-cache showpkg flashplugin-nonfree

The ‘clean‘ command is used to free up the disk space by cleaning retrieved (downloaded) .deb files (packages) from the local repository (which you can usefully, prior to using clean sub-command, find in /var/cache/apt/archives):

Code:

apt-get clean

To fix dependencies if for example you have used an offline installer such as JWM->Utility->Xfpack, use:

Code:

apt-get install -f (with nothing typed after that)

From that same apt commands link:

Apostolis Hardalias wrote:

Two very handy and useful commands are:

apt-cache depends

which shows the package dependencies and

apt-cache rdepends

which shows packages depending on (reverse depends)

EDIT: Of course you find all the details about Debian, including lots on apt, at their documentation pages:

If you are running as a non-root user then use sudo with the following apt commands:

The ‘update‘ command is used to resynchronize the package index files from the their sources specified in /etc/apt/sources.list file:

Code:

apt-get update

The ‘upgrade‘ command is used to upgrade all the currently installed software packages on the system:

Code:

apt-get upgrade

Use 'install' to install a package whose name you know:

Code:

apt-get install iceweasel

If you don't know the exact name, you can use “search” with apt-cache to display a list of matched packages with short description:

Code:

apt-cache search flashplugin

or use:

apt-cache search flashplugin | less (q key to quit 'less')

You can download any given package without installing it:

Code:

apt-get download iceweasel

To un-install software packages without removing their configuration files (for later re-use the same configuration). Use the ‘remove‘ command:

Code:

apt-get remove iceweasel

To remove software packages including their configuration files, use the ‘purge‘ command:

Code:

apt-get purge iceweasel

To list all the available packages

Code:

apt-cache pkgnames

or use:

apt-cache pkgnames | less

if you would like to check information of package along with it short description, use show:

Code:

apt-cache show flashplugin-nonfree

if you would like to check package dependencies, use showpkg:

Code:

apt-cache showpkg flashplugin-nonfree

The ‘clean‘ command is used to free up the disk space by cleaning retrieved (downloaded) .deb files (packages) from the local repository (which you can usefully, prior to using clean sub-command, find in /var/cache/apt/archives):

Code:

apt-get clean

To fix dependencies if for example you have used an offline installer such as JWM->Utility->Xfpack, use:

Code:

apt-get install -f (with nothing typed after that)

From that same apt commands link:

Apostolis Hardalias wrote:

Two very handy and useful commands are:

apt-cache depends

which shows the package dependencies and

apt-cache rdepends

which shows packages depending on (reverse depends)

William

WOULD BE VERY USEFUL IF THESE INSTRUCTIONS WERE COPIED TO THE FIRST POST ????????

Note that the following suggestion is really only concerned with really old computers (ten years old or so). It will not be necessary for most computers and may not work for you anyway (just did for me). I was having trouble booting from a usb flash stick after originally formatting it with a single ext4 format partition with Gparted (and disabling the ext4 journal to save flash from wear). My machine detects the single usb stick partition as /dev/sdb1:

If you have an older machine (ten year old or so) and are having trouble to get DebianDog to boot from grub4dos when the debiandog live folder is on usb, as a last resort you can try the following method of formatting a usb to ext4 first. If I instead use Gparted to format my usb stick, and install debiandog onto that, I find that the result boots fine on my newer computer, but can't find files on my older one.

By formatting the usb stick in the following manner instead, and then installing debiandog on that, I have no problem booting on either my older machine or my newer one. I don't guarantee this will work on any particular machine, but it is maybe worth a try if all else seems correct but you still can't boot from the usb. If that doesn't work, you might also like to try changing 16384 (which results on partition starting on 1MiB boundary) below to 2048 (which results on partition starting on 1MiB boundary instead) but 16384 worked fine on my old machine:

1. I partition and format my usb stick (on /dev/sdb) with the following two commands:

Code:

echo "16384,,L,*" | sfdisk -f -H 16 -uS /dev/sdb

mkfs.ext4 -O ^has_journal /dev/sdb1

2. The above reduces the apparent heads to 16 (-H 16) (which presumably works around a BIOS limitations problem on my old machine) and formats /dev/sdb1 partition with ext4 fs. Then I simply run debdog-install, click on /dev/sdb1 partition, select debiandog install iso (or my /mnt/home/live folder), and press the install button (I avoid using gparted since that seems to muck up the heads bit; not that there is anything wrong with gparted - it is probably just using the kernel's representation of CHS values, which is fine for most modern computers).

The result boots on both my old and newer computer and the bootable (*) /dev/sdb1 Linux (L) partition starts on 8MiB boundary (16384 sectors).

Note that my old machine actually has no BIOS option to directly boot from usb so as a workaround I have grub4dos bootloader itself on the harddrive for that machine (with grub4dos bootloader on harddrive MBR and grldr and menu.lst on the harddrive's first partition)_________________Non enim propter gloriam, diuicias aut honores pugnamus set propter libertatem solummodo quam Nemo bonus nisi simul cum vita amittit.

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I am a LiveDVD user for all of my PUPs. I run persistence via save-sessions to my LiveDVD via the builtin subsystem for such. Is that ability present in this distro?

Hi, Gcmartin.

Unfortunately you can't save session on DVD with DebianDog.
What you can do is to boot from the DVD and save session on usb or hdd in save-file, save-folder or save-partition.
Maybe in time if there is interest from Puppy linux developers it will be possible to modify puppy save file options to work for DebianDog.

Thanks for the reply Toni, will give try this in the next week or so.
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Make sure you have:
* "Input Core Support" and "Input Core Support/Mouse Support"
enabled in the kernel or as modules.
* "Support for USB", "Preliminary USB device filesystem", "UHCI or
OHCI", and "USB HID Support" enabled in the kernel or as modules.

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